American Chemical Society (ACS)

"15. Do I have any rights to use material that I have authored, but for which ACS holds copyright?
The current ACS Journal Publishing Agreement covers several permitted uses by authors. Permitted uses are subject to certain conditions (see the Journal Publishing Agreement User Guide [PDF]) and may vary according to the version of the paper in production (see question 14). Permitted uses of all versions include:
Use in theses and collections of your own work…"

"24. I am a student writing my thesis. May I use papers I have authored in ACS journals, or material from them, in my thesis without obtaining explicit permission?
You may reuse all or part of the Submitted, Accepted, or Published versions of your ACS papers in your thesis or dissertation. Such reuse is permitted subject to the ACS' Ethical Guidelines to Publication of Chemical Research and you should secure confirmation from the respective ACS journal editor(s) to avoid potential conflicts with journal prior publication policies. The ACS copyright credit line should be noted on the appropriate pages and appropriate citation of any Published versions.
If the thesis or dissertation to be published is in electronic format, a direct link to the Published Work must be included using the ACS Articles on Request link.

Although ACS grants students automatic permission to use their ACS articles in theses, it is highly likely that the graduate school requires a statement of written permission. Students should use RightsLink to obtain permission, and provide their graduate school with the written document provided by RightsLink.

"SECTION II: Permitted Uses by Author(s)
1. Reuse/Republication of the Entire Work in Theses or Collections:
Authors may reuse all or part of the Submitted, Accepted or Published Work in a thesis or dissertation that the Author writes and is required to submit to satisfy the criteria of degree-granting institutions.
Such reuse is permitted subject to the ACS' "Ethical Guidelines to Publication of Chemical Research"; the Author should secure written confirmation (via letter or email) from the respective ACS journal editor(s) to avoid potential conflicts with journal prior publication**/embargo policies. Appropriate citation of the Published Work must be made. If the thesis or dissertation to be published is in electronic format, a direct link to the Published Work must also be included using the ACS Articles on Request author-directed link (see http://pubs.acs.org/page/policy/articlesonrequest/index.html)."

"Copyright permission for published and submitted material from theses and dissertations
ACS extends blanket permission to students to include in their theses and dissertations their own articles, or portions thereof, that have been published in ACS journals or submitted to ACS journals for publication, provided that the ACS copyright credit line is noted on the appropriate page(s)."

"Reuse/Republication of the Entire Work in Theses or Collections: Authors may reuse all or part of the Submitted, Accepted or Published Work in a thesis or dissertation that the author writes and is required to submit to satisfy the criteria of degree-granting institutions. Such reuse is permitted subject to the ACS' "Ethical Guidelines to Publication of Chemical Research" (http://pubs.acs.org/page/policy/ethics/index.html); the author should secure written confirmation (via letter or email) from the respective ACS journal editor(s) to avoid potential conflicts with journal prior publication*/embargo policies. Appropriate citation of the Published Work must be made. If the thesis or dissertation to be published is in electronic format, a direct link to the Published Work must also be included using the ACS Articles on Request author-directed link - see http://pubs.acs.org/page/policy/articlesonrequest/index.html
* Prior publication policies of ACS journals are posted on the ACS website at http://pubs.acs.org/page/policy/prior/index.html

If your paper has not yet been published by ACS, please print the following credit line on the first page of your article: "Reproduced (or 'Reproduced in part') with permission from [JOURNAL NAME], in press (or 'submitted for publication'). Unpublished work copyright [CURRENT YEAR] American Chemical Society." Include appropriate information.

If your paper has already been published by ACS and you want to include the text or portions of the text in your thesis/dissertation, please print the ACS copyright credit line on the first page of your article: “Reproduced (or 'Reproduced in part') with permission from [FULL REFERENCE CITATION.] Copyright [YEAR] American Chemical Society." Include appropriate information.

Submission to a Dissertation Distributor: If you plan to submit your thesis to UMI or to another dissertation distributor, you should not include the unpublished ACS paper in your thesis if the thesis will be disseminated electronically, until ACS has published your paper. After publication of the paper by ACS, you may release the entire thesis (not the individual ACS article by itself) for electronic dissemination through the distributor; ACS’s copyright credit line should be printed on the first page of the ACS paper."

"Publishing implications of electronic publication of theses and dissertation material
Students and their mentors should be aware that posting of theses and dissertation material on the Web prior to submission of material from that thesis or dissertation to an ACS journal may affect publication in that journal. Whether Web posting is considered prior publication may be evaluated on a case-by-case basis by the journal's editor. If an ACS journal editor considers Web posting to be "prior publication", the paper will not be accepted for publication in that journal. If you intend to submit your unpublished paper to ACS for publication, check with the appropriate editor prior to posting your manuscript electronically."

"25. My university requires me to publish my thesis on the Web. Does that change what and how I can use material I have authored but for which ACS holds copyright?
See answer to Question 24. [siehe oben] Because of the public nature of the Web, you should be even more aware of the possibility that such publication may jeopardize an editor's willingness to accept material from such a thesis as "unpublished." See the prior publication policies of ACS journals."

Elsevier

"Can I include/use my article in my thesis/dissertation?
Yes. Authors can include their articles in full or in part in a thesis or dissertation for non-commercial purposes."
Enthalten auf den Seiten Copyright - Permissions von Elsevier.

"Elsevier does not view the following uses of a work as prior publication: publication in the form of an abstract; publication as an academic thesis; publication as an electronic preprint. Please note that Cell Press, The Lancet, and some society-owned titles have different policies on prior publication."
Enthalten auf den Verlagsseiten "Copyright - Permissions".

"Original Content… Theses and Dissertations
In submitted manuscripts, Frontiers allows the inclusion of content which first appeared in an author’s thesis so long as this represents the only medium it has appeared in, is in line with the author’s university policy, and can be accessed online. If the thesis is not archived online, it is considered as original, unpublished data and thus is subject to the unpublished data restrictions of some of our article-types. This inclusion should be noted in the Acknowledgements section of the manuscript and the thesis should be cited and referenced accordingly in the Reference list."

Hindawi

"Open Access authors retain the copyrights of their papers, and all open access articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided that the original work is properly cited."
Enthalten auf den Verlagsseiten guidelines.

"If authors have used their own previously published work, or work that is currently under review, as the basis for a submitted manuscript, they are required to cite the previous work and indicate how their submitted manuscript offers novel contributions beyond those of the previous work."
Enthalten auf den Verlagsseiten ethics.

Nature Publishing Group

… "the Authors retain the following non-exclusive rights:
a. To reproduce the Contribution in whole or in part in any printed volume (book or thesis) of which they are the author(s)."

"d. To post a copy of the Contribution as accepted for publication after peer review (in Word or Tex format) on the Author's own web site, or the Author's institutional repository, or the Author's funding body's archive, six months after publication of the printed or online edition of the Journal, provided that they also link to the Journal article on NPG's web site (eg through the DOI).

NPG encourages the self-archiving of the accepted version of your manuscript in your funding agency's or institution's repository, six months after publication."

"Note: British Journal of Cancer maintains copyright polices of its own that are different from the general NPG policies. Please consult this journal to learn more."

"Duplicate publication
The policy outlined on this page applies to Nature journals (those with the word "Nature" in their title). NPG publishes many other journals, each of which has separate publication policies described on its website. A current list of these journals, with links to each journal's homepage is available.

Nature journals' policy on duplicate publication

Material submitted to a Nature journal must be original and not published or submitted for publication elsewhere. This rule applies to material submitted elsewhere while the Nature journal contribution is under consideration.

Authors submitting a contribution to a Nature journal who have related material under consideration or in press elsewhere should upload a clearly marked copy at the time of submission, and draw the editors' attention to it in their cover letter. Authors must disclose any such information while their contributions are under consideration by a Nature journal - for example, if they submit a related manuscript elsewhere that was not written at the time of the original Nature journal submission.

If part of a contribution that an author wishes to submit to a Nature journal has appeared or will appear elsewhere, the author must specify the details in the covering letter accompanying the Nature submission. Consideration by the Nature journal is possible if the main result, conclusion, or implications are not apparent from the other work, or if there are other factors, for example if the other work is published in a language other than English.

The Nature journals are happy to consider submissions containing material that has previously formed part of a PhD or other academic thesis which has been published according to the requirements of the institution awarding the qualification.

The Nature journals support prior publication on recognized community preprint servers for review by other scientists in the field before formal submission to a journal. The details of the preprint server concerned and any accession numbers should be included in the cover letter accompanying submission of the manuscript to the Nature journal. This policy does not extend to preprints available to the media or that are otherwise publicised outside the scientific community before or during the submission and consideration process at the Nature journal.

Nature journals do not wish to hinder communication between scientists. For that reason, different embargo guidelines apply to work that has been discussed at a conference or displayed on a preprint server and picked up by the media as a result. (Neither conference presentations nor posting on recognized preprint servers constitute prior publication.)"

"Our guidelines for authors and potential authors in such circumstances are clear-cut in principle: communicate with other researchers as much as you wish, whether on a recognised community preprint server, by discussion at scientific meetings (publication of abstracts in conference proceedings is allowed), in an academic thesis, or by online collaborative sites such as wikis; but do not encourage premature publication by discussion with the press (beyond a formal presentation, if at a conference)."
Enthalten auf den Verlagsseiten zu Communication between scientists.

"... Material in a contribution submitted to a Nature journal may also have been published as part of a PhD or other academic thesis."
Enthalten auf den Verlagsseiten
Confidentiality and pre-publicity.

"Criteria for Publication: …
PLOS ONE does not accept for publication studies that have already been published, in whole or in part, elsewhere in the peer-reviewed literature.
All figures included in manuscripts should be original, and should not have been published in any previous publications.
In addition, we will not consider submissions that are currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. …
we will consider manuscripts that have been deposited in preprint servers such as bioRxiv or arXiv, or published in a thesis. We will also consider work that has been presented at conferences."
Enthalten in Criteria for Publication.

SAGE

"Q7 - What are my rights as author?
It is important to check the policy for the journal to which you are submitting or publishing to establish your rights as Author. SAGE's standard policies allow the following re-use rights:

You may do whatever you wish with the version of the article you submitted to the journal (Version 1).

Once the article has been accepted for publication, you may post the accepted version (Version 2) of the article on your own personal website, your department's website or the repository of your institution without any restrictions.

You may not post the accepted version (Version 2) of the article in any repository other than those listed above (i.e. you may not deposit in the repository of another institution or a subject-matter repository) until 12 months after publication of the article in the journal.

You may use the published article (version 3) for your own teaching needs or to supply on an individual basis to research colleagues, provided that such supply is not for commercial purposes.

You may use the article (version 3) in a book authored or edited by you at any time after publication in the journal. This does not apply to books where you are contributing a chapter to a book authored or edited by someone else.

You may not post the published article (version 3) on a website or in a repository without permission from SAGE.

When posting or re-using the article please provide a link to the appropriate DOI for the published version of the article on SAGE Journals (http://online.sagepub.com)

If your re-use is not already covered by our standard re-use policy, you can request permission by following the instructions on our Journal Permissions page:
Permission for most SAGE Journal content can be processed immediately via RightsLink®, an automated service operated by the Copyright Clearance Center. If you are unable to complete your request via RightsLink® after following the instructions provided on this page, please email your request to permissions@sagepub.co.uk."
Enthalten auf den Verlagsseiten unter Copyright and Permissions.

"If material has been previously published it is not generally acceptable for publication in a SAGE journal. However, there are certain circumstances where previously published material can be considered for publication:

Most dissertations and theses posted in institutional archives: if the dissertation being presented for publication is the same or substantially the same as any previously published work, it will not be suitable for a SAGE journal.

Working papers or versions of the paper posted on a pre-print server: authors should alert the Editor when submitting their paper if they have posted it on a pre-print server. Authors should not post an updated version of their paper on the pre-print server while it is being peer reviewed for possible publication in the journal. If the article is accepted for publication, the author may re-use their work according to the journal's self-archiving policy: SAGE’s standard self-archiving policy can be found on our Author Gateway.

In all cases the author should disclose any prior publication or distribution to the Editor and ensure appropriate attribution to the prior distribution and/or publication of the material.
For advice on how to clear permission for a manuscripts you intend to submit to for publication in a SAGE Journal, please visit our Author Gateway Copyright and Permissions FAQ."
Enthalten auf den Verlagsseiten zu Prior Publication.

"Authors should ensure that: … their work has not been previously published and has been submitted only to the journal …
Above all, authors should be transparent. For example, if an author is not sure whether her paper is original (for instance, whether it might constitute duplicate publication), she should inform the journal’s editor. If the editor decides it is appropriate to publish, the paper itself should state clearly any potential overlap."
Enthalten auf den Verlagsseiten zu Ethics - Responsibility.

"Submission of a manuscript implies: that the work described has not been published before (except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture, review, or thesis);…"
Enthalten in den Manuscript Guidelines Journals.

Wiley

"Contributors may re-use unmodified abstracts for any non-commercial purpose. For online use of the abstract, Wiley encourages but does not require linking back to the final published contribution. Contributors may use the articles in teaching duties and in other works such as theses."
Enthalten auf den Verlagsseiten Licensing Info & FAQs unter "Copyright Transfer Agreement (CTA) or Exclusive Licenses".

"Journals from different disciplines vary in their approach to pre-print servers. Many biomedical journals would consider posting an article to a pre-print server to render any subsequent journal publication redundant. Thus an article submitted for consideration after having been posted to a pre-print server would be rejected. However, many researchers working in physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance and statistics post their articles to arXiv before submitting an article successfully to a journal for peer review and publication. Journals should establish a policy about pre-print servers and declare this in their instructions for authors. Any previous publication should be disclosed in the paper.
The following types of "prior publication" do not present cause for concerns about duplicate or redundant publication: … Dissertations and theses in university archives…"
Enthalten in den Best Practice Guidelines on Publishing Ethics (Seite 4 des PDFs) von Wiley.